Natalie Garci'a
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Groups interchanged insults in the Pebble

From the past Tuesday hundreds of sandboxes, millers, truck drivers, workers and to representatives of the community the activities were bet in the entrance of CVG Minerven, paralyzing. The requests were the payment of slow invoices and the destitution of the directive that heads Herrera.

The money for the cancellation of the debts was secured and in spite of these the protestants are obstinate to negotiate, because they declared that its last aim is the exit of the person in charge of the state one.

This Friday who support the management of Herrera made an activity, with red revolutionary socialist dye “, rojito”, in which they showed his intentions to end the paralyzation and to resume the task as of the next week.

Shock of pressures
While the gesture of official solidarity passed, in the Place Bolivar of the Pebble a part of the demonstrators, among them representing of the Union of Workers of the Industry of Gold (Sinmioro), was made feel.

Once and sounding to bugle the claiming ones they vociferated “outside Luis Herrera there”, “outside that corrupt one”, “we do not love more thugs”, “whom the bandits” causing miners go away and activists of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela that attended the activity.

In the middle of this it had a little while of tension when the striker caravan stopped itself and began to discuss with a group of people who support the president of Minerven. The military, present forces in the act, prevented luckyly that the aggressions happened of verbals to physical.

In the town all were to the expectation and from the jewelry shops and other commerce every one was shown with dissimulation to see what happened. The subject of the day was and is the paralyzation of the company and the refusal of a negotiation that allows to resume the activities of normal way.

Many of the assistants were bothered by the attitude of the demonstrators and proposed to march until the company to face them.

To exhaust legal routes
Until the mayoress of the Pebble, Orlenia Scipio, went to calm the people and it asked to them to act intelligently, informing who already the PSUV had met with Luis Herrera in Ordaz Port, where the political bureau made a decision that will be presented by the official channels.

“We cannot fall in provocations, it is necessary to exhaust the legal routes”, said the representative, who added that Wednesday yes attended a town hall abierto in outside of the company, that does not support the exit of the president of Minerven and that was in the town hall because as municipal authority must listen to the restlessness of all and try to mediate for an exit.

Well-known change

The miners, representatives of communal advice and the neighbors who attended the act of support to the president of Minerven assure that during the management of Herrera they have seen a real change of the mining policy in the South zone of state Bolivar, who for many years was in the hands of transnational which far from to leave well-being in the towns they increased cords of misery around the Roscio municipalities, Callao and Sifontes.

Ana Perez, representative of the Front of Socialist Women: “We are defending the management of Luis Herrera. We are tired of which the skinny ones do what it gives the desire them. We know that this protest is something difficult, but they do not know what is worth for us Minerven”.

Mirza Go'mez, resident of the Pebble: “Minerven is patrimony of the town and we supported that unemployment stops. We have received the collaboration of the company, hurts east process to me, which is happening. I call to those who are in guarimba which they think about the future of the children”.

Jesus Alberto Urbina, miner: “For many years this has been into the hands of transnational, all we know the problematic one the municipalities of the South and the unique man who is changed and nationalized mines is called Luis Herrera, beyond the debts are more important things like the future”.

White, representing Jhonny of communal advice of Upata: “We endorsed the fight in defense of our Minerven, and to its president whom a transformation to the benefit of the town has done. We create of the empoderamiento of the companies for the town, the true town”.